Improvement in machines for making wire rope



N. VAN LOON.

MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE-ROPE.

No.187,9431. 5 1 Patented Feb zv, 1877.

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.FEYERS, PHDTO-LITNOGRAFNER, WASHINGTON. D G,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS VAN LOON, OF ST. ULOUD, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR MAKING WIRE ROPE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,943, dated February27, 1877 application filed July 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS VAN LOON, of St. Cloud, in the county ofStearns and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Machinefor Making Wire Rope, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view, Fig. 2 asectional side elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical transverse section online 0 c, Fig. 1, of my improved machine for making wire rope; and Fig.4 a detail front view of the spinning disk or die.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to an improved machine for making wire ropes ofany size in a rapid and perfect manner; and the invention consists of asystem of wire-carrying bobbins or wheels mounted in a rotable frame,having a hollow shaft or axis, on the inner end of which is fixed aperforated die or spinningdisk. The wires wound upon said bobbins passthrough the spinning disk, and are wound around a core or wire whichpasses through the hollow shaft, as hereinafter described.

The invention further relates to the means for steadying the aforesaidbobbins in the rotable frame.

1n the drawing, A represents the supporting-frame of my improvedwire-rope machine, and B the bobbin or spool, from which the central orcore wire of the rope is unwound. The wires composing the exteriorportion of the rope are wound on separate bobbins D, which are mountedloosely on fixed shafts a, seated in bearings b of a rotable frame, D,the said pulleys being retained and steadied in a position radial to theaxis 0 of the rotable frame D, by means of cross-pieces d secured byclamp-plates e and set-screws 0. (See Figs. 1 and 3.)

The exterior wires or pass from the radial pulleys D through holes ofthe revolving frame D, formed in a circle concentric with the axis 0,into a guide-cylinder, E, and issue thence through the holes of aspinning die or disk, E.

The rope is formed by the rotation of the wheel-frame and disk, thewires 0!. being thus wound or laid spirally around the central wirewhich passes from bobbin B over pulley B, and thence through shaft oraxis 0 and disk E. The rope thus formed passes below or around astretching-pulley,f, to a drum, F, on which the finished rope is woundup.

The machine is set in motion by hand or power, as desired, thestarting-crank y, when worked by hand, being near the supply-bobbins, agear-wheel of the crank-shaft meshing with a gear-wheel on the shaft offrame D, which again gears, by a cog-wheel on guidecylinder E, with anintermeshing-wheel of a transmitting-shaft, g, which imparts, byintermediate gearing, motion to the windingdrum. The stretching of theend of the wirerope by the drum, in connection with the turning of thepulley-frame and continuous feeding of the wires, forms the rope at thespinning (lie or disk.

The drum F is provided at one side with fixed lugs h, for retaining thewire rope on the drum, and at the other with movable lugs M, which areattached by means of clampscrews W, to be detached or carried to theinside of the circumference of the drum F, when the coil of rope is tobe taken off the drum.

The side bearing iof the drum is removable from the drum-shaft, and alsothe crosspiece '5, to which the bearing is attached, from frame A, sothat the coil may be conveniently removed from the drum withoutdetaching the same from the supportingframe.

The machine is easily operated by revolving the crank after the wiresare stretched, and ropes of every desired thickness and number of wiresmanufactured by the same in a rapid and uniform manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The drum F, provided at one side with the fixed lugs h h, and at theother side with the movable lugs h k attached to said drum by theclamp-screws h h substantially as described, and for the purpose setforth.

lateral steadying-pieces and clamp devices, substantially as specified.

NICHOLAS VAN LOON. Witnesses:

L. W. COLLINS, L. T. STOREY.

